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"Still others are the seed tossed among weeds and brambles. The word has reached them, but the things of this life—the worries, the drive for more and more, the desire for other things—those things cluster around close and choke the life of God out of them until they cannot produce." (Mark 4:18-19, The Voice)
Oswald Chambers writes, "Beware of 'the cares of this world . . .' (Mark 4:19). They are the very things that produce the wrong attitudes in our soul. It is incredible what enormous power there is in simple things to distract our attention away from God. Refuse to be swamped by 'the cares of this world.'" (My Utmost for His Highest)
We do not have control over how life comes at us. We only have control over how we respond. Will the cares of this life drive us to drink, drive us to fret, drive us to overwork or over-eat, drive us to sleeplessness ... Or drive us to pray, drive us to trust, drive us to listen to God's direction and cooperate with Him?
What are the "cares of this world" that are clamoring for your attention today?
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